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Where should the crew compartment go?
On the engine, of course! Right above the HEALIZAIE and the FALT.
How does gravity effect this? Well, that's the good part. near the heat shield it pushes from front to back, but near the thrusters is pushes back to front cancelling it out.
The gravity cancels out, letting aerodynamic drag lift the rocket into space.
But don't forget to put the actual crew on the other side of the engine to the crew sections.
Where you're always one leak away from being horrifically oxidized or slurped through an engine.
Oh cool, we reinvented the Me-163 Komet.
Just looked up a pic of that plane. Looks like a toy
or between two, stacked engines!